{"id":70,"date":"2008-10-13T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/wis-shooting-victims-sue-law-enforcement-leaders.html"},"modified":"2008-10-13T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T18:56:00","slug":"wis-shooting-victims-sue-law-enforcement-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/wis-shooting-victims-sue-law-enforcement-leaders.html","title":{"rendered":"Wis. shooting victims sue law enforcement leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"Date: 10\/13\/2008 7:36 PM<br \/><br \/>CRANDON, Wis. (AP) _ The parents of four young people killed by a sheriff&#8217;s deputy and the lone survivor of his shooting spree last year claim in a lawsuit that the gunman&#8217;s law-enforcement superiors were negligent in supervising him and giving him access to weapons.<br \/><br \/>The lawsuit filed in Forest County Circuit Court also claims authorities knew Deputy Tyler Peterson, 20, had a history of violence, yet gave him too much decision-making responsibility.<br \/><br \/>Peterson was also a part-time Crandon policeman, and the lawsuit names Crandon Police Chief John Dennee, Forest County Sheriff Keith Van Cleve and their insurance companies as defendants.<br \/><br \/>Peterson killed his one-time girlfriend Jordanne Murray and five other people during a party at her home in Crandon on Oct. 7, 2007. Authorities have said Peterson was angered by the idea that Murray was dating someone else.<br \/><br \/>After breaking down the door, Peterson fired at least 30 shots from an AR-15 assault rifle he was issued as a member of the Forest County Sheriff&#8217;s SWAT team. Peterson shot and killed himself hours later after police efforts to get him to surrender failed.<br \/><br \/>He killed Murray, 18; Bradley Schultz, 20; Lindsey Stahl, 14; Aaron Smith, 20; Lianna Thomas, 18; and Katrina McCorkle, 18. Charlie Neitzel, 21, was shot three times but survived by playing dead.<br \/><br \/>The parents of Schultz, Stahl, Thomas and McCorkle joined Neitzel in the lawsuit.<br \/><br \/>According to the lawsuit, Dennee and Van Cleve had been warned that Peterson was a &#8220;violent person and a danger,&#8221; and they knew that Peterson had abused Murray.<br \/><br \/>None of the complaints against Peterson were investigated, the lawsuit said, adding that the sheriff and police chief failed to protect the public from the dangers posed by Peterson.<br \/><br \/>Van Cleve and the city attorney for Crandon did not immediately return telephone messages Monday. The sheriff&#8217;s dispatcher who answered a call for the Crandon Police Department said Dennee was not in his office Monday afternoon.<br \/><br \/>The city of Crandon and Forest County earlier denied the families&#8217; claims seeking more than $5 million in damages. Those decisions opened the door for the civil lawsuit.<br \/><br \/>The two insurance companies named as defendants in the lawsuit are the League of Wisconsin Municipality Mutual Insurance and Wisconsin County Mutual Insurance Corp.<br \/><br \/>Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 10\/13\/2008 7:36 PMCRANDON, Wis. 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